Several papers from our group have been accepted at IEEE VIS 2016.
Our PhD students
Sergej Stoppel,
Andreas Lind, and
Ivan Kolesar
will each be presenting their work in Baltimore.
A further paper first-authored by
Noeska Smit,
who is now also part of our group, is the result of a collaboration between institutions in Delft, Leiden, Koblenz, and Bergen.

We organized a workshop on the topic of visualization for decision making and the role of uncertainty. We had two excellent invited speakers (Chris Johnson and George Craig) the program included many interesting paper presentations. I was part of a panel where we presented and discussed our views on the grand challenges in visualizing uncertainty.

Stefan Bruckner is professor in visualization at the Department of Informatics of the University of Bergen, Norway. He received his master's degree in Computer Science from the TU Wien, Austria in 2004 and his Ph.D. in 2008 from the same university. He was awarded the habilitation (venia docendi) in Practical Computer Science in 2012. From 2008 to 2013, he was an assistant professor at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms at the TU Wien. His research interests include interactive visualization techniques for biomedical data, illustrative visualization, volume rendering, and visual data exploration. His research has received publication awards at several international events including SCCG 2017 (best paper), SCCG 2015 (best paper), VCBM 2014 (best paper and honorable mention), SCCG 2013 (best paper), EuroVis 2010 (best paper), and Eurographics 2007 (3rd best paper). He won the Karl-Heinz-Höhne Award for Medical Visualization in 2006 and received the 2011 Eurographics Young Researcher Award. He was program co-chair of the Eurographics Medical Prize 2017, VCBM 2016 &amp 2017, and EuroVis 2012, and currently serves on the editorial board of Computers & Graphics. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGGRAPH, and Eurographics.

Open Positions

Currently, I currently have several open PhD positions (first application cutoff: May 3, 2018). Please see here for application information. If you are interested in applying for a PhD position with me, you are encouraged to contact me directly at Stefan.Bruckner (at) uib.no.

Research

I investigate methods for gaining insight into complex data to further scientific understanding and discovery, medical diagnosis and treatment, and engineering, as well as techniques for communicating these findings to the public. Building on these foundations, my current interests include the development of novel approaches for the scientific inquiry of large-scale heterogeneous data spaces with a particular focus on the visual analysis of spatial data.

Teaching

Fall Semester: This course gives an introduction to the field of computer graphics in practise and theory. It covers central topics such as modeling, data structures, real-time rendering, and global illumination.

Spring Semester: This is the central course for the UiB master study programme in informatics with focus on visualization. It broadly covers important areas in the field including visual design and aspects of human perception. Topics include information visualization, flow visualization, volume visualization, and visual analytics.